Gharyan
Gharyan is a city in northwestern Libya, in Jabal al Gharbi District, located 80 km south of Tripoli. Gharyan is one of the largest towns in the district.- Type: City with 188,000 residents
- Description: town in northwestern Libya, in Jabal al Gharbi District
- Also known as: “Gasr Gariàn”, “Gharian”, “Gharyān”, “Gherien”, “Γκαργιάν”, “גריין”, “مدينة غريان”, “ⵖⵔⵢⴰⵏ”, and “ⵖⵔⵢⴰⵏ غريان Gharyan”
Gharyan
- Categories: municipality of Libya, big city, and locality
- Location: Jabal al Gharbi District, Libya, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
32.17159° or 32° 10′ 18″ north
Longitude
13.02115° or 13° 1′ 16″ east
Population
188,000
Elevation
704 metres (2,310 feet)
IATA airport code
QGH
Open location code
8F4M52CC+JF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Amharic to Zulu—“Gharyan” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ጋርያን”
- Arabic: “غريان”
- Asturian: “Gharyan”
- Azerbaijani: “Qaryan”
- Belarusian: “Гар’ян”
- Bengali: “গারিয়ান”
- Cebuano: “Gharyan”
- Chinese: “盖尔扬”
- Chinese: “蓋爾揚”
- Czech: “Gharján”
- Danish: “Gharyan”
- Dutch: “Gharyan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جريان”
- Esperanto: “Garjan”
- Finnish: “Gharyan”
- French: “Garyan”
- French: “Gharyan”
- Georgian: “ღარიანი”
- German: “Garian”
- German: “Gharyan”
- Greek: “Γκαρυάν”
- Gujarati: “ઘર્યાન”
- Hausa: “Gharyan”
- Hebrew: “ע’ריאן”
- Hindi: “ग़रयान”
- Hindi: “घारियान”
- Indonesian: “Gharyan”
- Irish: “Gharyan”
- Italian: “Garian”
- Japanese: “ガリヤン”
- Javanese: “Gharyan”
- Kabyle: “Ɣeryan”
- Kannada: “ಘರಿಯಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Гарян”
- Kirghiz: “Гарян”
- Korean: “가리안”
- Latvian: “Garjana”
- Lithuanian: “Garjanas”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Garian”
- Malay: “Gharyan”
- Marathi: “घरियान”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gharyan”
- Oromo: “Gaariyaan”
- Panjabi: “ਘਾਰਿਆਨ”
- Persian: “غریان”
- Polish: “Gharjan”
- Portuguese: “Gariã”
- Portuguese: “Garião”
- Portuguese: “Gharyan”
- Pushto: “غريان”
- Romanian: “Ghiryan”
- Russian: “Гарьян”
- Russian: “Гарян”
- Scots: “Gharyan”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Garian”
- Sinhala: “ඝර්යන්”
- Slovenian: “Gharjan”
- Somali: “Gharyan”
- South Azerbaijani: “غریان، لیبی”
- South Azerbaijani: “غریان”
- Spanish: “Garian”
- Spanish: “Garián”
- Swahili: “Gharyan”
- Swedish: “Gharyan”
- Tajik: “Гарян”
- Tamil: “கார்யன்”
- Tatar: “Гарян”
- Telugu: “ఘర్యాన్”
- Thai: “กาฮ์ยาน”
- Turkish: “Garyan”
- Turkish: “Geryan”
- Ukrainian: “Гар’ян”
- Ukrainian: “Ґар’ян”
- Urdu: “غریان”
- Uzbek: “Gharyan”
- Venetian: “Garian”
- Vietnamese: “Gharyan”
- Volapük: “Garyan”
- Zulu: “Gharyan”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Gharyan”.
Localities in the Area
Places to explore: ⵏⴱⵓⴽⵔ قرية نبوكر and Awlad Ali.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: مسجد المنارتين and مكتب الأوقاف وشؤون الزكاة ‘غريان’.
Libya: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Tripoli and Benghazi.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.